Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-15

Vesting in real estate, putting their CAPT.
tai to the erection of buildings, and with
out any breach of trust serving them
selves and the railway to wonderful profit
at the same time. Omaha is the adopted
child of the Union Pacific railway. Its
wealth ana power have either been Gre
ated by this great corporation or gained
to it through it's influence on eastern cap
ital, and the favors it granted to such
capital by way of guarantee of making
| their Omaha investments secure and
| profitable. Omaha through this influence
has not only had the many hundreds
of miles west of it tributary
to its trade, but the Union Pacific has
given it such rates as to make it the Chi
! Cag0 to everything west of it, compelling
! all the smaller cities and towns to buy of
| its jC0Ding houses and manufactures.
Therefore, the hundreds of millions Of the
! Union Pacific Railway and its enormous
mileage working in the interest Of
| Omaha, and the rich capitalists of the
east working with the inside men of the
| Union Pacific Road, anG the Chicago pool
lines giving it lower rates than the cities
TO the east of 1t, have conspired together
to make Omaha city, and to make in
vestments in it's real estate and business
unusually profitable.
Minneapolis and ST. Paul are except
ions among cities. Their locations have
far more of natural advantage than any
Of the cities which we have discussed.
They are remote from Chicago in cOun-
try and nearly world of their own, and
everything to the west and north of them
| has SO far been tributary to them. Added
to this they cave had the wonderful and
magical help of the greatest spring wheat
country and crop eV known or deVel-
oped, and the equally magical help of
| the many millions acres of pine forests,
which have been quickly trans
| ferred into articles of commerce. Moth
ing in American history has equalled the
wonders of the growth Of those two cities.
Great as they are, they are comparatively
secure in their future. Now, however,
as the new railway law will prevent the
railways and the railway men from work
ing for them in discrimination against
other cities and towns in their country,
it will prevent the railroads from giving
them the fostering help they have been
giving to them and to Omaha and Kansas
City. Large towns and cities may and
doubtless will spring up to the West and
north of them, since they can no longer
be Disseminated against in favor of st.
Paul and Minneapolis. This may serve
to take away large share of their trade,
and with the destruction of the forests,
the greatest of their industries will COM
parativeIy pass away, and IS their soil
ceases to have the wheat-grOWing quail
ties, as all soils dc, they will suffer some
loss from that. Their reliance will be
upon manufacturing, and in this they
are pretty secure.
We need only to emulate the spirit Of
the people of these other cities to make
our fortune sure. If all the larger land
owners of Des MOines will follow the ex-
ample of the large lard owners in these
and other cities and invest their money
IN helping to build up the town, in pro-
viding it with splendid buildings, more
manufactures, or in jObbing or any other
business, that of itself will add millions
to cur wealth yearly and thousands to our
population. If the city csn be given the
benefit of its own income, and the rein
fCrcement of its own earnings, that will
add still more 10 create life, and if all the
business men will take the profit they
make from the patronage Of DeS MOines
and the trade down to Des MOines and
re invest it in Des MOines real estate, in
the erection of buildings, in the stlmula-
! ton of manufacturing, and in every other
good way, that will annually add millions
I of money and thousands of people 10 our
| city Des MOines has never been given
fair show by all of those most interest
ed in it. Too many of the larger land
owners here, as elsewhere, have re-
| he'd on manifest destiny and the
| industry, enterprise and public spirit of
Door men and business men to make them
still more rich. Latterly they have
changed for the better and are now be-
ginning to do something of their own
part in building up the city. Business
men, bankers, manufacturers and others
are also ceasing the past habits of taking
money made by the great business and
patronage of Des MOines and investing it
elsewhere, and are beginning to see that
they can invest the same money in Des
Moines in the erection of business blocks,
in the establishment of manufactures, or
other enterprises, and not only keep it at
home, but make more money in doing SO
than they can in investing elsewhere.
Let US build up in every way that we
can home institutions and every home
couragement, and for the general good
let us aid most of all those who do the
most good to the city; those that not only
earn money in Des Moines but bring to
Des Moines a great deal Of money
from the outside and spend To- here,
Everything should be encouraged
especially in It's infancy, even if il
is not able to do as much for the
town as the town does for it; helping by
patronage to build it up and make it
strong. Let US encourage every industry
and every form CT business to earn all the
money it can here legitimstely and en-
courage it to invest all it's profits here,
Let every greet institution of more than
city scope or character be encouraged in
drawing from the state or from the coun-
try st large all the business possible.
] bringing it mere for the benefit of Des
Moines and investing its profits here
In all of the cities we have
discussed in this article all the institu
tions, agencies anu companies which draw